Do you remember singing to your favorite nursery rhymes as a toddler? I do! The most popular for me were "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Old MacDonald had a farm". I can't remember when I first...
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Why Tick Tock and Not Tock Tick? Rule of Ablaut Reduplication
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Hickory Dickory Dock...... Have you ever stopped to wonder why we say tick-tock and not tock-tick? Or why it is flip-flop instead of flop-flip or...
Teaching children nursery rhymes can play an essential role in children's cognitive, emotional, social, and language development. Nursery rhymes can even help children with their reading development...
Many popular children's songs and stories are about animals and the sounds they make. Children respond to these happily and love participating by making animal sounds. But is it helpful to encourage...
Singing a child to sleep is familiar to most cultures and can almost be seen as instinctive human behavior. The songs we sing at bedtime are often traditional ones that we remember from childhood,...
Unless you're a parent or kindergarten teacher, you will have left the crazy words and basic tunes of nursery rhyme far behind you. They certainly don't come up in any language and literature class...
